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Great…. very French, for them culture is always related to food. Debussy got his best ideas for his instrumentation through tasting dainty morsels. Iberia’s brilliant scoring resulted from tasting a Pulpo a la Gallega (1st mvt), Empanadas (2nd mvt) and a Fabada Asturiana (last mtv), and we know from his letters that the foaming middle mvt of La Mer was produced after a champagne binge. We know that Ravel wrote Bolero after a particularly boring dinner at the home of the Princesse de Polignac (she was a born American: Winnaretta Singer, heiress of the sewing machine company).

Of course, Satie was a vegetarian, as anybody with an acute musical ear can hear, and Messiaen had digestion problems (simile). Boulez had no digestion system at all and kept himself alive on pills.

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